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Title: Debunking the Y2K Terrors & Tales by Mitchel Whitington ISBN: 0-9669705-0-0 Publisher: Mitchel Whitington Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: CD-ROM List Price(USD): $7.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Well done! Finally, a healthy dose of logic & common sense!
Comment: Mr. Whitington's Debunking the Y2K Terrors & Tales is welcome proof that you don't have to write a tome longer than War and Peace to make your point. It's also a book in which the author uses his brain and deductive reasoning skills. Methodically and calmly, Mr. Whitington serves his readers with doses of technical and common sense---both of which are in shockingly short supply concerning this timely subject. Yet, he goes beyond simply identifying what the scare stories are and why they're baseless. He invokes business and technical logic, other scarce commodities for which you can search long and hard when reading about Y2K.

Of course our toasters will work in January 2000. Why in the world would so-called embedded chips in toasters have date functions in the first place? So I can set my watch by them as I butter my English muffin?

Of course our cars will start in January 2000. Of course the elevators will keep working after the new millennium begins. The so-called embedded chips in these machines aren't date sensitive either. Why would they be?

Another reviewer used "shallow" to describe Mr. Whitington's work. That's a bad choice of words, readers. The work isn't sold by the pound like some elongated, lugubrious books, but it is most certainly not shallow. It's as long as it takes for Mr. Whitington to do the job---to show in both technical and yet very readable ways that this Y2K hoopla is just that. Hoopla.

Do yourself and your family a favor. Before you purchase a swimming pool in which to store water, yank your assets and other life's savings out of the bank or cut off your own head and run around in mindless circles, I heartily recommend you buy and read this book. You'll save yourself a lot of needless, worthless aggravation. You also won't be lining the pockets of Y2K shysters and other con artists all too willing to take your survivalist money and skip merrily to THEIR banks with YOUR money.

Mr. Whitington, thanks for using your brain---and your writer's pen---to bathe this topic in badly-needed logic.

Rating: 5
Summary: Y2K information for the average reader
Comment: This is an interesting and well-written book that conveys a lot of information aimed at the average reader. Instead of highly technical jargon describing computer workings, the book covers a variety of topics that the average person is curious about regarding what are likely scenarios for Y2K.

He covers economic, social and technical topics in an interesting, informative manner. His view of the Y2K event seems to follow other authors in that the world will not end, people will not die...life will go on. This is the sane, reassuring message other non-alarmists give us.

The book makes common sense, rational suggestions about things the average reader shoud/could do to minimize Y2K problems. The information presented is timely. The things to do are all "do-able" by any reader.

I would recommend this book as a down-to-earth source of information for anyone having concerns about the Y2K. I especially appreciate the range of topics and the easily readible style. If you know someone who has no idea what Y2K could bring, I suggest you get them this book.

Rating: 5
Summary: A well written book by a knowledgeable author.
Comment: I'm glad to see that Mr. Whitington has taken the time to research this matter so thuroughly. It is reassuring to see that not everyone is trying to get into our wallets using the Y2K scare. Thanks you for your straight-forward approach to this problem. I will avoid buying into all the scare tactics now.